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Nigel Beckett, Imperial College, London COMMENT: Nick Boon, British Cardiovascular Society, London Even very old patients benefit greatly if you treat their hypertension. This is the finding of the randomized HYVET study of 4,000 patients with

REFERENCE: Lancet 371:117 January 11, 2008 COLIN BAIGENT, Oxford University Statins were found to cut cardiovascular event rates by a fifth among patients with both Type I and Type II diabetes in a meta-analysis of 18 000

JOSE BASELGA, Vall d’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona RAD001, a drug targeted at the mTor pathway, has been combined with letrozole in a randomised phase II trial in breast cancer. The investigators saw more responses in the experimental arm, and

REFERENCE: Meet the Professor Session, AACR 2007, Los AngelesPAUL FISHER, Columbia University, New York Patients with cancer could soon be treated with adenoviruses capable of infecting both primary and distant tumors, and simultaneously releasing cancer-fighting cytokines, according

Matt Page, United Biosource, MEDTAP Institute, Bethesda Vaccinating all age groups against influenza is likely to be cost effective – that’s acccording to a study presented at ICAAC by Matt Page. He told Derek Thorne that his …